Time for AlphaPatriot to eat crow, ’cause twenty or so hours ago I said the polls showing that the latest gun ban in Brazil would be defeated were wrong. But it was I that was wrong as Brazilians voted to keep gun sales legal:

“We didn’t lose because Brazilians like guns. We lost because people don’t have confidence in the government or the police,” said Denis Mizne of anti-violence group Sou da Paz.

Many voters had expressed concern before the vote that a ban would leave them defenceless against heavily armed criminals. Public confidence is low in a police force widely seen as inefficient, abusive and corrupt. …

The ban failed in all 26 states and the federal district of Brasilia. Rural areas rejected it overwhelmingly.

“This region is very isolated. If you don’t have a gun here you don’t have protection,” said Igor Dedea, a logger in the rainforest state of Para.

Brazil has one of the highest rates of gun deaths in the world as well as a strong leftist tradition. Gun laws have become more and more restrictive (covered in a previous post here). But as the government took away the people’s abiltiy to protect themselves the governement failed to protect the people. Time for a revolution.